Hughes (Ted) New Selected Poems 1957-1994, first edition, signed by the author to Gerald and Joan Hughes, additional annotations in Gerald's hand to 4pp. and lower flap, photograph taped down to endpaper, small adhesion marks where glue has been removed to endpapers, small sticker to pastedown, newspaper cuttings taped down to half-title and rear endpapers, original boards, dust-jacket, lightly marked, extremities bumped, 8vo, 1995.

⁂ A charming copy belonging to Gerald, with captioned photograph of Gerald, his wife Joan, and Ted outside Canterbury Cathedral in 1952.

Also with Gerald's chosen newspaper clippings taped in about the poet's death. Manuscript note to flap reads "Ted died 28 October 1998 of cancer - in the London Bridge Hospital - Funeral at North Tawton, Cremated in Exeter, Ashes to be scattered by canoe at a special secret location on Dartmoor". Gerald's other annotations include intimate recollections as "I was with Ted this day", or naming "Jack Orchard, Carol's father" as the subject of the poem 'A Memory', as well as smaller intriguing grammatical annotations or amendments.